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Old 11-03-2018
Grandpa returning to UNIX
On the late 1960s I got short hands on experience with a russian "small" computer. It vas a copy of DEC's VAX ... and running some version of BSD-Unix. After that I worked in a university following the development of computing. After retire I started collecting old pc's and installing Linux-distributions to them. I like using terminal to do simple tasks as for ex. uppdating programs.

Now in the LINUX MAGAZINE March 2018 I found a dvd containing NetBSD 7.1.1. wich I installed or tried to do that. Everything seemed to go well except that while trying to get connected to Internet using 4G-wireles the installer did not find the DNS-server. Anycase I was able to login to the terminal. And I know that advice can be foundd, for ex.NetBSD Documentation.

But some questions are still open in my mind. There are still some strategic questions. What about some other variants of BSD as Free- Open- PC- Smilie

What would you recommend for a grandpa age 84 Smilie
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Old 11-03-2018
You could learn to program with Vue.js and jQuery and help us develop some new features for the unix and linux forums Smilie
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Old 11-03-2018
The installer not finding (or configuring) a DNS server is no big deal.

The DNS server(s) address should be configured in
Code:
/etc/resolv.conf

You can edit that file (or create it if it doesn't exist) and put the ip address of your desired DNS server in there.

A directive "nameserver" plus single ip address will suffice, on the first and only line in the file, fully left justified.

For example to use Google's DNS server which is at 8.8.8.8 simply edit your resolv.conf to be like this:

Code:
nameserver 8.8.8.8

and reboot your box.

EDIT: Original post was technically incorrect, edited post to correct my mistake.
Last edited by hicksd8; 11-03-2018 at 05:22 PM.. Reason: Technical correction: include "nameserver"
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Old 11-03-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by fossiili
On the late 1960s I got short hands on experience with a russian "small" computer. It vas a copy of DEC's VAX ... and running some version of BSD-Unix.
Hmm, on the late sixties, there was no Unix yet and no VAX either. That might be the late seventies where early BSDs were indeed running on the first VAXen...
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Old 11-04-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by jlliagre
Hmm, on the late sixties, there was no Unix yet and no VAX either. That might be the late seventies where early BSDs were indeed running on the first VAXen...
thats true. Smilie Something wrong with the posting.
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Old 11-04-2018
Thank you for correcting my memories! I'm glad to notice that here are some other persons old enough to remember those days Smilie

------ Post updated at 11:57 AM ------

I have an other computer connected to Internet. I tried Ifconfig:
Code:
[root@localhost ukki]# ifconfig
enp0s31f6: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.1.100  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet6 fe80::7285:c2ff:fe49:7fb1  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 70:85:c2:49:7f:b1  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 5222  bytes 3579646 (3.4 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 5014  bytes 675106 (659.2 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
        device interrupt 16  memory 0xdf000000-df020000  

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 6  bytes 498 (498.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 6  bytes 498 (498.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

[root@localhost ukki]#

Smilie

Is there some terminal command to see the address of DNS Server?
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Old 11-04-2018
Code:
cat /etc/resolv.conf
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